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Nine Reasons Mesa 9.0 Is Disappointing For End-Users

Phoronix: Nine Reasons Mesa 9.0 Is Disappointing For End-Users

While this morning I shared my views about nine good features of Mesa 9.0 for the major open-source OpenGL user-space update, there's also many disappointing items and shortcomings of this Mesa 9.0 release as it pertains to end-users running the open-source Linux graphics drivers...

Isn't there a saying don't kick a man when he is down... in any case Mesa is much better than AMD's catalyst especially on my laptop's radeon 4200.

Case in point I can play wine games without artifacts which isn't possible with the proprietary driver. Performance is good enough for many classes of games. FPS games being the main exception. For the most part games don't require high frame rates. If it looked like warmed over pond scum at high frame rates what would be the point.

It's very nice to see that Michael is not wearing rose-colored glasses.

Nice page!

Linux is far superior for any kind of calculations/programming/documentation on a desktop. If I think of MikTex -.- and TeXnicCentre seems the only viable editor etc. in Windows, no native Python support in a shell (OK, you can install Python in Windows and have a shell, too), no workspaces after ~20 years of development, no Gnome3 etc.